TO GO WITH STORY 'INDIA-MONSOON-ECONOMY-FARM-DROUGHT' by Rupam Jain Nair Aroop Singh, a farmer in Haryana with a family of six who depend solely on the annual income of approximately 2,00,000 Indian rupees (3,600 US dollars) from their eight acres (three hectares) of farmland, speaks about his parched land in Haryana on July 26, 2012. India's monsoon rains which lash the country each summer arrived late and have been feeble since, leading to hardship for hundreds of millions of farmers. The much-romanticised annual downpour that varies in strength from region to region is a lifeline for him and approximately two thirds of the 1.2-billion population who depend on agriculture for their incomes. AFP PHOTO/Roberto SCHMIDT (Photo credit should read ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/GettyImages)
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